I got two pieces of good news on Thanksgiving. First, Margaret Woollatt liked my first draft of Sparrow's story! She sent an elaborate, thoughtful editorial response that has me itching to get to the revision. And second, Little Brown informed me that the rights to a French translation of The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen have been purchased. I'm so happy that young girls who are caught between cultures in France will get the chance to meet Sunita. Now I'm sitting by a crackling fire and writing notes to myself about a possible sequel to her story ...